Greater Victoria
Greater Victoria is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island.
Greater Victoria is located in British Columbia, Canada, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. It is usually defined as the thirteen municipalities of the Capital Regional District (CRD) on Vancouver Island as well as some adjacent areas and nearby islands.
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Worth seeing in and around Greater Victoria
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located on Observatory Hill, in Saanich, British Columbia, was completed in 1918 by the Canadian government. The Dominion architect responsible for the building was Edgar Lewis Horwood.
1.1 km · observatory in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Elk Lake
Elk Lake is a large lake located in Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park in Saanich, British Columbia. Elk Lake and Beaver Lake are actually one lake as a shallow channel connects them.
2.3 km · lake in Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Maltby Lake
Maltby Lake is located in South southwestern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It is located 10 km north of Victoria, British Columbia in the Tod Creek Watershed.
3.2 km · lake in British Columbia, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Elk/Beaver Lake Regional Park
The Elk/Beaver Regional Park is a 1,072-acre park in Saanich, British Columbia, containing Elk Lake and Beaver Lake. Elk/Beaver Lake was known as the "Freshwater Playground of Victoria" in its heyday, the 1930s and 1940s.
1.6 km · Park in Saanich, British Columbia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Greater Victoria
- Airports
- Victoria (YYJ), 15 km · Vancouver (YVR), 78 km · Seattle–Tacoma (SEA), 144 km
- Vancouver → Greater Victoria86 km · quickest by road, 5h 2m · C$19–25
- Kelowna → Greater Victoria326 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · C$140–220
- Calgary → Greater Victoria729 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · C$180–280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Greater Victoria
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Greater Victoria. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get in}} Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal is served by BC Transit.
- Get inRoute 70 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
- Get inRoute 72 operates between Victoria (Swartz Bay) ferry terminal and downtown Victoria via downtown Sidney and McTavish Exchange.
- Get inAbout half an hour drive north of Victoria, there are ferry services in Sidney.
- Get inOperates routes from: Vancouver (Tsawwassen) ferry terminal (1 hour 35 minutes crossing.
From Wikivoyage: Victoria (British Columbia), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Greater Victoria
- Saanichdistrict municipality in British Columbia, Canada3.8 km
- Central Saanichdistrict municipality in British Columbia, Canada2.2 km